The slow race of getting NASA's Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year's Artemis II moon mission jumped a ...

"We want to get to Mars. We don't want to stop there." Artemis II astronauts talk Moon and future Mars missions at SXSW 2025.

NASA’s much-anticipated Artemis II mission has experienced multiple delays in recent years, with the agency currently targeting no earlier than February 2026 for a flight that will send four ...

Artemis II is targeting no later than April ... That remains the most powerful rocket to send a payload to orbit. Stacking of the two boosters should be finished in a couple of weeks and a ...

While making the deliveries, the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured ...

NASA's SLS carrying the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis I flight test on Nov. 16 ... thanks to its extra thrust, higher payload capacity, smaller cost, and reusability. But Dan Dumbacher ...

The ICPS is the in-space upper stage of the SLS stack. On Artemis I, it was responsible for raising the initial orbital perigee and then performing the all-important translunar injection (TLI ...

Artemis II is slated to launch four astronauts ... “Orion’s a spacecraft, right? You could call it a payload. So yes, ultimately you need something to throw it with a certain velocity out ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 set a new benchmark for commercial lunar exploration, lasting longer than any previous private ...

While SpaceX’s in-development Starship has since surpassed that liftoff thrust, SLS remains the most-powerful rocket to ever send a payload into orbit. That happened in 2022 on the Artemis I ...

As part of the Artemis program, NASA is working both with federal agencies and private aerospace companies through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, program. This program contracts ...